How the Internet came about. A bit of history

Each of us at least once, reading email or studying the results of the next search query, wondered how the Internet appeared. Indeed, what was the beginning of this grandiose system, which today does not have a specific host.

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Like many other technologies and inventions, the Internet has emerged from the bowels of military centers, namely the Pentagon. To ensure the availability of computers in the event of a nuclear war or other military confrontation, it was necessary to develop a fundamentally new system. To fulfill this task, at the end of the 50s of the last century, DAPRA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was established. It was there that the "web" began to interweave.

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The usual name for everyone was the “Internet” network in 1974. The patent holders for the term are Americans Winton Cerf and Bob Kahn.

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Not even half a century has passed since the Internet appeared, but it has entered the life of a modern person so deeply that for many it has become the only source of knowledge and information. You can argue endlessly about its benefits or harms, but if you read these lines, then you are online.




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